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Study: Anti-Drug Ads Haven't Worked

abcnews.go.com — Despite investing $1 billion in a massive anti-drug campaign, a controversial new study suggests that the push has failed to help the United States win the war on drugs.

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  • stignordas, on 10/15/2008, -1/+6When is the US Gov going to accept that drug use is going to happen no matter what, so why not put the resources on harm reduction and recovery instead of blowing it on Madison Ave.?
  • OfNumbers, on 10/16/2008, -1/+5America. Where Cops lets rapists and killers and politicians roam free, yet the prison system is filled with pot smokers.
  • implicitmemory, on 10/16/2008, -1/+3Yeah, it's ridiculous that marijuana is cause for an arrest or prison for that matter. I've never met anyone who smokes pot and is a liability to anyone. Alcohol on the other hand, does not have a good record.
  • thechr0nic, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1heh, so it seems that we might more progress if we simply spend a hundred trillion dollars we might see within the short span of a thousand years an asounding 30% drop in usage!!!11!11!
    /end sarcasm

    What return on investment have received from the decades of time and hundreds of billions of dollars spent? Drugs are more potent and more accessible than ever. We can also boast the largest prison population even compared to all of Europe combined and at an average cost of $30,000 per inmate per year, we spend more on prisoners than any other country as well.

    Maybe we should look to history as an example and see all of the positives earned when we ended alcohol prohibition and try some of those same formulas today. If we simply end prohibition we could start making some serious progress. If all drugs (even those horrible evil ones like coke, meth and heroin) we could better control all aspects of the trade, similar to how we control the distribution of alcohol and tobacco. If we ended prohibition, we could start drying up the black market, which is what causes the majority of our crime and violence problem and actually start working on the much more difficult problem of drug addiction.

    I never advocate people use drugs, especially the harder ones. However we must realize that with prohibition, we have ZERO control and enable drug lords to reap mountains of profit. I wish common sense would be more common.
  • Iaianrocks, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1Smoke weed everyday ...
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